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National security team briefing Obama on Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama is getting regular updates on the situation in Ukraine.
Obama's national security team is discussing Ukraine at a White House meeting Saturday, the eve of a vote on whether Ukraine's Russia-leaning Crimea region should secede and seek annexation by Moscow. Obama and the leaders of other Western nations have denounced the vote as illegal and say they won't recognize the results.
Earlier Saturday at the United Nations, Russia vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution declaring Sunday's referendum illegal.
Crimea became a flashpoint after Ukraine's pro-Russia president fled the country last month after months of anti-government protests.
Russia refuses to recognize Ukraine's new government and has effectively taken control of the Crimea region.
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Environment News
- 11 July 2013 | Environment
The beaches of Qingdao, in China, have been invaded by 20,000 tons of bright green algae.
Qingdao, one of the best surfing cities in China, has seen an historical algae bloom over an area of about 11,500 square miles.
The cleanup costs will rise up to $30 million. Researchers believe that the algae that washes up around Qingdao has traveled from seaweed farms along the coast of Jiangsu Province.
- 02 July 2013 | Environment
A rare tsunami has hit the East Coast of USA, on the 13th June, 2013, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The source is complex and still under review, though the coincidence at several gages with strong atmospheric pressure fluctuations indicate that it is at least partly generated by meteorological causes.
Apparently, the "meteotsunami" might have been related to a strong storm that moved through the region and offshore that day.
- 26 June 2013 | Environment
The US Congress is voting on a bill to dramatically expand offshore drilling in the country.
Effectively, this means new offshore drilling off every US coastline, including the states of California, Virginia, South Carolina, and Alaska.
The Offshore Energy and Jobs Act (HR 2231) would double the amount of drilling off the coasts by requiring the Department of the Interior to lease at least 50% of unleased acreage with the greatest resources.
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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Fallingwater - THE house by Frank Lloyd Wight
Fallingwater from Cristóbal Vila on Vimeo.
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Saturday, August 29, 2015
Why don't we all dance our way to peace and happy times?
Posted by Miss Eagle at 9:41 a.m. Links to this post
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Ramadan crafts and Ramadan knowledge
The text across the top of this blog says what it is all about. I keep this blog free of sound offs and heavy stuff and put them on The Network. I prefer The Trad Pad to be a place of sweetness, light and beautiful things. However, we are living in a world/a nation which is increasingly multi-cultural, multi-faith, and interfaith. And this is the month of Ramadan. Across the world, Ramadan is huge as Christmas across the world is huge. So I am seeking to explore with Trad Padders what Ramadan is all about. With these thoughts in mind, I explored what might be in keeping with this place. And so it is that I present you, dear Trad Padders, with Karima's Crafts.
In turn, the banner above led me to this site : The Wonderful Art Garden for Muslim Sisters
Karima's site has a Ramadan section.
Many of the crafts in this section can be adapted
for other reasons and seasons.
For a more precise knowledge of what Ramadan means in the Muslim faith,
please explore the document embedded below.
Posted by Miss Eagle at 12:10 p.m. Links to this post
Labels: Craft, Fasts and Feasts, Ramadan, Religion & Spirituality
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Grandmothers Against the Detention of Refugee Children : World Refugee Day : The Billy-Lids Song
Last Sunday was World Refugee Day - celebrated in City Square in Melbourne.
trained to Melbourne for the event which concluded Refugee Week.
Here we are at City Square, Melbourne - before the huge crowds turned up!
Below are two links to the Billy-Lids song which comes to us from
Please take the opportunity to learn the song and spread its message.
Great song. See who you can recognise. To me, Margaret Roadnight's voice is instantly recognisable.Thanks to Brigid Walsh for introducing me to this group of Artists.
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And there is another interesting site for the song here
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Happy Mother's Day to all those mums in detenton - we are thinking of you on this day.
Please copy this post to
your Facebook, your Google+, Twitter -
everywhere you can -
so that mothers cruelly detained will know
that there are Australian mothers, parents, grandparents,
thinking of them and their children on this day.
Posted by Miss Eagle at 9:30 a.m. Links to this post
Labels: Children, Events, Mothers, Refugees and Asylum Seekers
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Calling artists, photographers and the like - come to Buangor on Sunday to help save the ancient and doomed trees
Say your goodbyes to these beautiful old redgums who've been living in the Middle Creek area long before it had that name - 200-400 years previously, at least. Say goodbye to the young trees too. There aren't too many growing on adjacent farmland. NONE of these trees are protected.
Not by#VicRoadsVandals.
Not by the #AndrewsGvt.
Not by anyone who has the power to protect them.
Say goodbye.
Noticed any roads authorities vandalising ancient habitat trees
on the Western Highway lately?
Come to Buangor on the 3 May - Sunday - 10am to 3pm
and help record the treasures we are losing.
Bring all your own materials, picnic, chair, etc.
(NB - good toilets at Beaufort!)
The enormous environmental damage being inflicted upon us all
is to save a TOTAL OF 2 WHOLE MINUTES of travel time
between Beaufort and Ararat!
For more details contact as per poster or via WHAM on Facebook
Numbers to phone for more information:
0408 545 229
0400 713 175
Could you also bring Yellow Ribbons
to tie around the trees
As a symbol of our care for them
Please know, we are being positive about saving these trees
for future generations
Could you also bring Yellow Ribbons
to tie around the trees
As a symbol of our care for them
Please know, we are being positive about saving these trees
for future generations
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Labels: Art, Destruction, Protest, Trees, Victoria, Western Highway
Sunday, February 15, 2015
Encapsulation of a life!
Trad Pads don't come much more traditional than this. It is a reflection of a life. Please watch the video. I was taken by the real estate man's instructions and intentions to leave the house as is. Of course what happens now is up to "the investor" who purchased it. I hope Fairfax ensures that it keeps this record.
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BurgerFi Features Two Tax Break Deals
Like many Americans, you're probably waiting until the very last minute, April 18, to file your taxes (yes, the IRS gave us a whopping three-day extension this year). After learning how much of your hard-earned cash you don't get to keep, you just might need a little something to perk you up.
Speaking of perk, BurgerFi is offering a "tax break" on Friday morning, April 15, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Visit the restaurant and pick up a free cappuccino, espresso, or coffee courtesy of Nespresso. Volunteers from the Big Bike Riders Children's Foundation will be on hand to help, with tips being collected for their charity.
After your taxes are done, you're going to need a drink, so head back to BurgerFi on Tuesday, April 19, from 8:30 to 11 p.m., when Brooklyn Brewery will be sponsoring a free beer tasting. Nothing goes better with beer than French fries, so the restaurant is supplying both fries and onion rings -- gratis -- for your noshing pleasure.
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This digital E-Book contains 28 projects on over 35 pages of the best Lotions, Scrubs and Salt recipes from the Soap Queen Blog.
This PDF file contains projects posted from the beginning of the Soap Queen blog until 2011. A few of the projects included are the Solid Sugar Scrubs, Baked Bath Salts and Whipped Shea Butter. Conveniently packaged together in one easy to search and print out file.
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Wales 2-0 Andorra
Wales end a successful Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a scrappy 2-0 win over Andorra on a night of celebration in Cardiff.BBC Sport » 50m
Wales end a successful Euro 2016 qualifying campaign with a scrappy 2-0 win over Andorra on a night of celebration in Cardiff.BBC Sport » 50m
The Netherlands lose 3-2 to the Czech Republic while Turkey defeat Iceland - ending the Dutch hopes of reaching Euro 2016.BBC Sport » 55m
England beat Kazakhstan to continue their 100% winning start to the 2017 European Under-21 qualifying campaign.BBC Sport » 1h
Northern Ireland are beaten 2-1 by Macedonia in the European Under-21 Championship qualifier at Mourneview Park.BBC Sport » 3h
Former Liverpool striker Djibril Cisse is released following his arrest by police investigating a sex tape blackmail plot.BBC Sport » 3h
Liverpool Ladies boss Matt Beard says their season was seriously impacted by 15 of his squad sustaining injuries.BBC Sport » 3h
Wales forward Jess Fishlock says the chance to develop her coaching was a major lure to join Australian side Melbourne City on loan.BBC Sport » 5h
Chelsea defender Gary Cahill says the team are determined to turn around their season after a poor start, beginning against Aston Villa on Saturday.SkySports.com » 6h
Ore team results show all results by season and for international teams, the last 50 matches.
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The day your son was born, you had dreams. Heck, if you're like me, those dreams started a decade or more before they were even conceived. As time goes on however, those dreams (and subsequently, your son's goals) have been dashed to the harsh reality that the odds to become a professional soccer player in the United States are as probable as being crushed by a vending machine at a vegan market.
In the United States, nearly every adult over 30 will tell you that "it takes luck to become a professional athlete". If you've analyzed the European systems of athlete training, you know that luck has NOTHING to do with becoming a professional soccer player. Saying you have to be lucky to become a professional athlete is like saying you need to be lucky to become a doctor, engineer or scientist. Soccer – like law, medicine, mechanical engineering, computer animation, etc. – is a skill that is learned through intensive training and real life experience. Like most trade schools and colleges, not everyone is cut out to be a professional athlete. Just like any other learning environment, there are drop-outs and fail-outs all along the way. Even after the education is acquired, some players are still better than others, just like some teachers are better than others and some lawyers are better than others.
Professional coaches will tell you that the average athlete needs to train about twenty hours a week to become professional and to remain competitive. When you break it down, that means that to get all of the training you need to become "professional", it'll take 8,ooo to 10,000 hours. And there lies OUR problem.
Even if American youth soccer coaches knew WHAT to teach our players and HOW to train them, they're still limited to just three hours of training a week (average). That equals just 105 hours per year (35 weeks) and only 1,000 hours per decade . Since a player requires 6,ooo to 10,000 hours of training to learn the skills and develop the reflexes he needs to play soccer for a living, that means it will take a player in the American youth soccer club system (at any level) about 100 YEARS to get that training.
You ARE dreaming if you think your kid can become a professional athlete in America!
Slowly, local clubs in cities with professional (MLS, NASL, USL) and semi-professional (NPSL) teams are affiliating and integrating their youth programs with the big league teams, but for the most part, this is just a program to build up the local fan base and sell tickets (of course, without fans, you don't have professional sports) – practice schedules are still aggressively limited to just a couple of hours a week, and the parents must still pay for their kids to play. The fastest way to get American Soccer over the pay-for-play crutch and turn it into a super-power may be the European system of promotion and relegation (see article: "Why America NEEDS Promotion and Relegation").
Europe has geographic systems of training, identification and referral that channel talented youth players into professional club Academies, assuring that they have the best of the best athletes playing at the highest level possible. By contrast, the U.S. has a haphazard system that requires players and parents to figure it out on their own. There is no system of referral and no incentive for weaker clubs to encourage their better players to play elsewhere. Subsequently, talented players in most clubs are oppressed and overconfident in their abilities, surrounded by a culture of mediocrity and lethargy.
But the problem doesn't just lie with soccer. It's that way with EVERY sport: basketball, football, soccer, baseball, hockey. We don't have true "development" clubs that prepare players to become professionals by the time they're 16, 17 or 18 years old. We don't have a system in place that recognizes and recommends players to professional development clubs. Our youth athletic organizations in every sport keep the dream of playing professional sports from ever becoming a goal. Our passive, weak system of training athletes means that countries like the Dominican Republic can dominate the Great American Game – baseball.
The Dominican Republic is a small country sharing half of an island in the Caribbean, with a population of about 10 million people. The United States, by contrast, dominates a continent with 311 million people. Major League Baseball has about 928 Americans playing in the league, or .000298% of the American population. The Dominican Republic by comparison, has 127 representatives in "the Show", or .00127% of their population. If both of these training programs were equal, the number of Dominicans playing in Major League Baseball would be about 30. Instead there are 127! In fact, a full 20% of professional baseball players at any level in the U. S. are DOMINCAN! The American population is 31 times larger than the Dominican population, and in theory, should be able to produce enough home grown talent to produce a proportionate number of players for the league. For some reason though, the Dominican Republic is 400% more likely to produce high level professional baseball players than we are.
What is it about this little country's baseball program that makes it so much better than anyone else?
Of course, Major League Soccer is even worse. Of the 540 players in the MLS (2011 stats), only 294, or 54% are American. To add more salt to our youth soccer wounds, the majority of those Americans actually learned the game abroad – in Mexico, Europe or elsewhere. An American who learned the game in America and plays in the MLS, is an anomaly – and is in a lower wage bracket, for obvious reasons: Youth soccer practices are usually limited to just 3 hours a WEEK (recreational teams are limited to just 1 day per week), with one game on Saturday. Practice times for teams are limited by clubs to allow more teams access to the fields. More teams in the club means more money for the club.
So how do we fix it?
Look into the mission statement of any American youth soccer club, and you will see statements similar to this "… to provide a fun and safe environment to play soccer". To state anything else would be deceptive, because our clubs and coaches are not educated or prepared to actually train athletes to become professional. Insinuations by soccer club directors may indicate that your son can become a professional soccer player, but these are just to keep the dream alive, and the money flowing.
The real reason that clubs don't develop players is that there is no incentive. In Europe they have what's known as "transfer fees" (see "Development" in "Where Does All the Money Go?") for professionals and youth players in their academies. In essence, it's payment for the time and effort a club has put into training a player. Youth clubs in the U.S. have no real incentives for training players, as the professional leagues (MLS, NASL and USL) are mostly removed from the youth programs. Therefore, clubs require payment up front (pay-for-play) in order to operate, which perpetuates the problem and promotes a culture of winning over development.
Since our youth clubs are failing so miserably, colleges and universities have become the crown jewel of pay-for-play systems, as they provide a venue for players to feel like professionals, without really being professionals. The college programs in the United States are even run by youth soccer coaches, many of whom are technical directors and coaches in their local youth clubs. For nearly all American college athletes, their last day in college is the closest they'll ever come to being professional athletes.
Jay Demerit of the U.S. Men's National Team is the premier example of what happens when you rely on the American system of athlete training . Demerit played soccer in high school and college and even spent a year with the Chicago Fire's Premier development team, but all of that still wasn't enough to get him drafted into the MLS. The American program that he wanted to play in wasn't good enough to train him. So he did what he should have done sooner – he went to Europe.
Within just 3 years of playing in England, Jay Demerit was named to the U.S. Men's National Team. After 6 years in England, Jay "retired" from English soccer to play in the league that he wasn't good enough for 6 years earlier.
The issue is "training". U. S. Soccer is ill equipped to train players to play at the highest level. Even the US Men's coach, Jürgen Klinsmann recruits players for the national team from European professional leagues. The European game is faster and the training for youth players is more focused. So, if your son wants to play professional soccer, is Europe the only option?
No. There's also South American countries like Argentina and Brazil. Heck, China is even a viable option now, as they're pumping millions and millions of yen into their soccer training programs to gain more influence in the soccer world.
If you're not willing to move, the only other option is to just accept the fact that America's youth soccer system provides a nice recreational outlet for our children to get some exercise, and learn how to be part of a team. With hard work and self-discipline, they'll even be able to play in college, where they can get an education in something that will actually pay the bills.
My son currently plays comp U11 soccer. I have been considering sending him to this camp when he is older: Tahuichi Way International Youth Soccer Camp for intense instuction…but more importantly for a life experience. Thoughts? Have you heard of it.
And thanks for your site. Its very helpful to many of us.
I am a 17 year old girl, and I was wondering what it takes to make it to women's professional level, what steps should I take in trying to pursue my dream..? If there is any training camps that would help me, I'm willing to put in the time. I didnt know if I should stay and train in the US or maybe go over to Europe or Holland and train with them…any thoughts or recommendations?
THIS IS WHAT THE USA NEEDS!! http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06Soccer-t.html
I am 13 years old and i want to become a soccer player and i don't know how? What i must do to become a soccer player?
Can a junior year college soccer player who is also playing in the NPSL get an agent? I thought I saw that the player can have an agent as an advisor only while playing in the NCAA and the agent can't do any negotiations until after player plays his last NCAA game.
I have a 14 year old son and he is very talented and is determined to make it more than a dream to become a pro soccer player. What is the next step to playing at that level?
"Youth soccer practices are usually limited to just 3 hours a WEEK (recreational teams are limited to just 1 day per week" OK I am not sure what Youth program your looking at but in my area we have plenty of youth teams that get way more then 3 hours a week training.
At age 7 and above teams have organized practice 3 days a week plus game days (which are still really practice as well as it is where you learn how to use what you learned) BUT they are also instructed to continue to use their own free time to practice skills alone and with friends as is done all over the world KIDS play. Also we play year round off season is just the gap between leagues. Most play indoor in winter Spring season and Fall season. With summer left to camps and tournaments. But they still train. SO I am not sure exactly what youth teams you are watching but in Western MA (and through out the area) are youth players are putting in the time. THE problem is the quality of the coaches and trainers. Most are parents with little to no coaching credentials in the US most soccer players don't get a paid coach with credentials until they are at least 13-14 years old. THAT is the difference They are practicing But if you practice poorly you learn to play poorly.
The goal should be to improve the level of those giving the training first then we can improve the level of the players. Also the Normal US sport path from Rec leagues to High school to Collage then Pro followed by Basketball Baseball and US Football does not work for Soccer. When most player in Europe are signing their first pro contracts US players are in high school most likely meeting their first paid coach (who at many schools is just a teacher that also once played soccer himself and little to no coaching credentials) THAT is why it is hard to be a professional Soccer player from the US. Even the best players the US has turned out that stay in the US are YEARS behind players from outside the US. Lets compare 2 US players one Landon Donovan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landon_Donovan the other Jay Heaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Heaps
I saw Jay play when he was a teenager playing at the high school level physical ability he had what he did not get was direction and training at the youth level from those who were actually Top level coaches.
Now they are not the same on many ways but the training both got in their teen years Was worlds apart and THAT is why one has 4 caps for the US mens team and the other has over 100. By the time Heaps got his first National team cap he was 2 years from retirement as a player. Heaps went the normal US athlete path he was a MLS rookie of the year. In the NFL or the NBL the best league in the world for those sports is full of players who also just follow the high school collage path and the US league is the ONLY or Best league for those sports but in Soccer (football) the MLS is a rookie league just a baby (like basketball leagues in Europe) And players that follow the typical US athletic career of youth high school and Collage then pro you are WAY too late to make it in Europe even if your a really good pro you may finally make it to Europe but you will have maybe a few years before your body starts to give out on you. AND your knowledge of the game will be years behind your counter parts. So what does a US athlete with hopes of a being a footballer well if your parents have the financial ability to drop it all and get you in to a Academy in Europe then GO that is your best shot and it is just that a shot as you most likely will move from there to a non-league or lower level league teams and then retire never making it to a top European club. that is the reality it is VERY hard to make it as a footballer on the world stage. AND it take a dedication to making it that is I have nothing to fall back on if I do not make it I will die trying. Most US Soccer athletes have too much too lose they mostly come from middle to upper class families and to risk that standard of living for what for most turns out to be a failed dream is just too much of a risk. To a poor kid in Brazil or a poor African nation they have nothing to lose and everything to gain and should the fail they are not lowering their level much so why not take a shot. Simply put a US kid playing soccer has it too good (we see poor youths making in the typical US sports for that very reason it is a path to wealth while Soccer has not been traditionally played in poor neighborhoods in the US and the path to pro soccer player in the US costs money so a poor kid must find someone to pay his way to the elite teams and clubs. In Europe their are plenty of scouts at all levels looking to exploit the dreamers for their own gain be it a non-league club team to lower level team there is someone looking for players and they sign Kids with skill and make them footballers some make it to the pros some just flounder in those lower level teams until they retire. (like AAA baseball in the US) You can players of all level can play Pro soccer in the US you just are not going to get paid much. There are hundreds of PDL teams in Europe there are thousands of football clubs at all levels and those clubs most of us have never heard of is where millions that dream of being a professional footballer end their careers a few hundred make it to the teams known the world over. the truth is it is not easy to be come a professional Soccer player anywhere in fact it may actually be easier to become a professional Soccer player in the US then anywhere else it is just not going to be if highly paid professional Soccer player (if you can live in $100/week (when your in season I know a team looking for players maybe it can be you) Now to a kid living in a favela $100/ week to play football sounds pretty good to a kid who grew up in a family where he had a iPhone at 12 and has a collage fund in the bank to drop everything for a dream that may end with making $100/week is not much of a appeal does it?
I've recently read your article about players going to open tryouts if it truly is their goal to make it to a premiere level team. Im trying to give you an idea of my background I'll do my best to keep it short. I started playing at seven years old, played competitively through high school. I sustained a meniscus knee injury at 17yrs old but did my best to get back and made a D2 college team as a walk on (20 yrs old). Due to financials and other personal reasons I dropped out of college and continued to play on indoor teams and other adult leagues but stopped playing competitively. I've recently finished my schooling, but I am currently turning 30. I've gone to Brazil recently completely out of shape, and held my own against some of the semi-professionals in local street games. I am contemplating an ultimate come back going into a 12-18 month training program and seeking out tryouts at that point. My question I guess would be is if you think at my age it is realistic to have an expectation of getting to a tryout and being successful at that tryout if part of my training included 6 months of training in Brazil. The question lies heavily on the factor of age and if there could be any success at all. I know it's a long shot but I'd like some feedback if possible. Please remove the comment if it does not merit a response. Thanks.
What are your opinions about ODP (Olympic Development Programs)? Do they help young players and help them get exposure to coaches or just a waste of money?
Great article. Straight and forward. My son is 4yrs old turning 5 this year. He has been asking me to put him in soccer for the past months. Can you please recommend me on what/where to Start looking. I would love to start him off as a great soccer player and move forward from there, if he is still highly interested. Ive searched for academies/camps development programs that last 1week. Is 1wk enough? I was expecting monthly. We live in Texas.
Hey im 23 I am going to play D3 soccer this year and I want to play pro. Please anyone give me advice I know im too old but I don`t want to give up yet.
iam 19 years old looking to make step foward i was thinking of playin college soccer but after reading these article i dont know what to do how can i just go to europe and try to play over there?
My son is 6 years old and is very good at soccer, he's is playing one year up and one of the best players at that age level. Considering he is only 6, and suggestions on how to continue his development so he has a chance of becoming a professional one day? I see you recommend 20 hours a week, is that recommended for his age too? He is currently only playing 6 hours a week.
My daughter is 11 years old and loves soccer and she is very good compared to her peers/teammates and I fear that she is not getting enough training to boost her potential in soccer. I live in Wisconsin, can you recommend any clubs or leagues to get her the top training and games she needs to develop her skills?
I try to practice with her atleast 4 days a week doing drills, ball handling, passing and touches but I have no soccer background, just a dad watching and learning from youtube videos. Any advice?
Hello, I am 21 years old and I play for a 2nd division club here in Bangladesh. As you know my country is not a country to develop athletes. And my dream is to play for top tier clubs. What would you suggest me? I was planning to come to USA but then I read your article. My country is very bad at soccer and they would concede 12 goals within 30 mins to USA! So that explains .. now please advice me something. Thank you
I'm 16 year old guy, very crazy about being a pro soccer player i just watch everyday on the tv when the athletes playing the games and i always try to copy with the way that they play, it works for me, Sometimes i play with my friends and they told me that i could play well if i were stay in europe. And i know that i can play like them if i work hard, practice well etc. I'm expecting to come to the U.S in january 2015. So what i have to do first when i come to U.S? Some advise please
Thank you for this article. It's brutally honest, which is what more American parents need to hear. I am a single mom with two boys, ages 13 and 9. I am only now starting to realize and understand how much time, not to mention an insane amount of money, I have wasted participating in American youth soccer clubs.
My children are extremely athletic, very tall (my 13 year old is 6'1 with a size 13 shoe) and are very good players. They practice every day on their own whenever they aren't playing with their teams. Other than move to Europe, which I would in a heartbeat if I knew how to get over there and live versus just visit, what do you suggest is the best way to get them noticed by professional clubs in Europe?
Also, I was looking through the website http://soccercampsinternational.com
They offer camps in Europe for two weeks, but I'm incredibly leery about sending my kid over to Europe by himself to a camp that has no individual vested interest in him, and also bc I don't want to be another "desperate soccer mom" who falls victim to more American "dreams and lies" that require an insanely large amount of money and won't even open up the first door to authentic opportunities. I mean let's face it, any parent can spend the money, whether their kid is good or not, to go to a highly recognized camp. In your opinion, would this international camp be worth the investment and travel for my boys? Thanks!
Thank you so much for posting this.
Im a 14 year old male, that will be playing at a little high school in a town in indiana. I know that it is very hard to get pro, but it is my dream. Any advice?


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Akron used defense to corrall the higher seed. 7-foot sophomore Zeke Marshall led the way with a devastating nine blocks to go with his nine points and 11 rebounds. Kent State was held to just 33.3 percent shooting by the team defense of the Zips as well. Akron guard Steve McNeese was the leading starter with 14 points, and Darryl Roberts kicked in 10. Forward Brett McKnight scored 15 in 23 minutes coming off the bench. Star player Nikola Cvetinovic (right) was held to just 4 points, but he was able to add 10 boards to the impressive overall team effort.
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Edmund White is one of American literature's best kept secrets, and Hotel de Dream is his finest novel in nearly a decade. Give this one a chance; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you've never read any of White's novels, this is a fantastic place to start. If you have read White's work before, this one just might rekindle your interest in him.
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In a damp, old sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author of The Red Badge of Courage has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of a Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream.
Though Crane's days are numbered, he and Cora live riotously, running up bills they'll never be able to pay, receiving visitors like Henry James and Joseph Conrad, and even planning a mad dash to Germany's Black Forest, where Cora hopes a leading TB specialist will provide a miracle cure.
Then, in the midst of the confusion and gathering tragedy of their lives, Crane begins dictating a strange novel. The Painted Boy draws from Crane's erstwhile journalist days in New York in the 1890s, a poignant story about a boy prostitute and the married man who ruins his own life to win the boy's love. Crane originally planned the book as a companion piece to Maggie, Girl of the Streets, but abandoned it when literary friends convinced him that such scandalous subject matter would destroy his career. Now, with his last breath, Crane devotes himself to refashioning this powerful novel, into which he pours his fascination with the underworld, his sympathy for the poor, his experiences as a reporter among New York's lowlife — and his complex feelings for his own devoted wife.
Seamlessly flowing between the vibrant, seedy atmosphere of turn-of-the-century Manhattan and the quiet Sussex countryside, Hotel de Dream tenderly presents the double love stories of Cora and Crane, and the painted boy and his banker lover. The brilliant novel-within-a-novel combines the youthful simplicity of Crane's own prose with White's elegant sense of form, offering an unforgettable portrait of passion in all its guises.
"'A biographical fantasia, White's latest imagines the final days of the poet and novelist Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage), who died of TB at age 28 in 1900. At the same time, White also imagines and writes The Painted Boy, a work that he has Crane say he began in 1895, but burned after warnings from a friend. Crane dictates a fresh start on the story to his common-law wife, Cora Stewart-Taylor. Interspersed within White's impressionistic account of Crane's life, The Painted Boy tells the tale of Elliott, a 'ganymede butt-boy buggaree.' Once a farm boy used by his widowed father and elder brothers like a girl, Elliott escapes to New York and begins a new life as a street hustler. Crane, dying overseas, asks that 'someone skilled and open minded' complete the novella. The wry Cora, in her earlier career as a madam at the Jacksonville, Fla. 'Hotel de Dream,' has some ideas of who among Crane's friends fits the bill. Though White's research and marshaling of slang are impressive, The Painted Boy approaches the sexual frankness of porn and reads improbably. But as White's book(s) build up steam, readers will let go of misgivings, caught up in Elliott's tragic love life and Crane's apocalyptic end. (Sept.)' Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)" Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Is it a sign of the decadence of literary culture that so many novels have been taking as their subjects the lives and quandaries of past novelists? Probably not, though recently we have had Virginia Woolf, Henry James (at least twice) and Arthur Conan Doyle among the more respectfully fictionalized, and Edgar Allan Poe and Kafka more loosely; the list could be extended. James makes a memorable appearance... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) as comic relief and villain in Edmund White's new novel, 'Hotel de Dream,' which tells of the last days in the life of Stephen Crane, who now joins the ranks of the novelized novelists. White, author of 'A Boy's Own Story' and several novels of gay life, takes the dead-author fantasia a further step by offering us within the pages of his novel almost an entire new novella by Crane. Crane's greatest fame as an author came just at the end of his short life — he died of tuberculosis in 1900 at the age of 28. His most successful work of fiction, a best-seller in the United States and widely acclaimed in Britain, was 'The Red Badge of Courage,' which, though written by a very young man who had not served in the Civil War, struck many readers as more authentic than any other account. Earlier, however, he'd made a name as a controversialist, journalist and flaneur in New York, outraging sensibilities with his articles on dance-hall girls and prostitutes. His first short novel, 'Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,' was a realistic (if melodramatic) account of a 'fallen' young woman. It's Crane's interest in New York street life and its sexuality that has engaged Edmund White. Taking off from a brief account of Crane's apparent friendship with a young male prostitute, White imagines Crane in his last months, tended by the former madam who called herself Cora Crane — she wasn't his wife, but she was his constant companion and loyal to the end — to whom Crane dictates a short novel called 'A Painted Boy.' White's novel is built around this manuscript and Crane's struggle to complete it; Crane's memories of New York, of Cuba during the conflict with Spain when he was a war correspondent, and of Florida, where he met Cora; and Cora's concerns with her Stevie, dying in England. 'The Painted Boy' would have been unpublishable in its time. White calls the boy whom Crane may have briefly known Elliott, and he has that name in Crane's story, too: a newsboy, prostitute, syphilitic, with bad teeth and ruined health, but still attractive. Crane sets his tale in the underworld to which Elliott introduced him — the transvestites, pickpockets, male prostitutes, kept boys and 'flame-fairies' or boys who wear makeup but male clothing. Crane delighted in it all, and the fiction he (or rather White) makes of it holds nothing back, not the graphic lingo of the transvestites nor the details of Elliott's infection. What shocked late-19th-century readers of Crane's novel about Maggie was not only its frankness about the sex trade but also its brutal hopelessness — this was 'naturalism' in the Emile Zola mode, distilled into simple, almost cinematic prose. What would have made 'The Painted Boy' shocking, if it had been published (or if it could actually have been written by Crane, which is a different question), is that it is a love story. The love is the compulsive, all-destroying passion of Theodore Koch, respectable married banker, for a beautiful spoiled boy. Cora, taking down the novel that Crane dictates, wants to know if he's basing his story on real people: 'Oh, botheration, Stephen thought, this is where she's revealing that she's a woman after all, the personal slant. ... For women pure fiction doesn't exist; they can't believe in it.' Does White, a famed memoirist as well as a novelist, have a 'personal slant'? White not only goes inside Crane's consciousness, he causes Crane to speak at times as though he were writing his own biography, referring to himself alternately as 'he' and 'I.' The tale that Stephen dictates to Cora is entirely in the Crane mode, a brilliant pastiche of a writer dying yet not full-grown, but there's something anachronistic about it. It is certainly possible for a straight writer today, with a century of gay writing to inspire and instruct him, to construct a gay love story with the emotional and physical detail of this one, but I don't believe that a straight writer of Crane's time — not even Crane — could have had the resources to imagine and re-create Theodore Koch's intimacies with Elliott in this way. So, is it pure fiction, even though based on more than one real life? Perhaps it is, in a certain sense. 'Hotel de Dream' was the name of the brothel that Cora managed long before in Florida, and thus it seems to make an odd title for a New York tale told by an author dying in Europe. But the title can be understood in another sense: This hotel of dreams is not the one in history; it's within Edmund White, a heartbreak hotel where, in a dreamlike fugue of styles, gay life past and present commingle in the streets of a lost New York made of a thousand details still vivid in the imagination of a novelist — not Crane, but White himself." Reviewed by John Crowley, the author of 'Lord Byron's Novel: The Evening Land', Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"White deals elegantly with themes of literary influence, indebtedness and impersonation....Intoxicatingly hedonistic and fearsomely bleak." New York Times
"[A] compelling, bracing portrait of an artist so committed to life that he obsessively strives to understand and to capture the unknown, thereby enlarging his circle of empathy, even in the face of death." San Diego Union-Tribune
"A minor effort, but a nice tribute to some of the author's literary progenitors." Kirkus Reviews
If Hotel de Dream...sends its reader back to Crane's original works, a great American undervalued writer will be newly honored." Oregonian
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Edmund White's novels include Fanny: A Fiction, A Boy's Own Story, The Farewell Symphony, and A Married Man. He is also the author of a biography of Jean Genet, a study of Marcel Proust, The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris, and, most recently, his memoir, My Lives. Having lived in Paris for many years, he is now a New Yorker and teaches at Princeton University.
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Our failure in chief gave us his annual blurred vision of America again Tuesday night.
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The Board of Barton County Commissioners will meet at 9 a.m. on Tuesday. Items on the agenda include a resolution transferring and carrying over 2012 unexpended funds to the Capital Improvement and Equipment Replacement funds; Richard Boeckman, County Counselor\Administrator, will provide the informational report of work completed during the last period; Amy Miller, Emergency Risk Manager, will discuss the Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan; and Sheriff Brian Bellendir will discuss the need for a water filtration system at the Barton County Detention Facility.
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Gift bag sent to us from the bride for which we were attending a wedding was not waiting for us in the room. We mentioned it and the bag was located for us quickly and cheerfully. Closet door did not latch correctly and room too small for a chair.
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Really comfortable bed. Newer shower head in my room, I think 501. Ample space for the price. Clean and modern lobby. Great central location. Good value.
Pretty thin walls/doors, can hear people if they're outside your room. They couldn't find my reservation when I arrived... but I imagine that won't happen to everyone.
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93 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate" "The 2006 Brunello di Montalcino is a huge, dark wine that saturates the palate with black cherries, licorice, new leather and French oak. Despite the extroverted style, this shows gorgeous delineation in its aromatics and plenty of vibrancy. Warm mocha and chocolate overtones add complexity on the finish. This is one of the more full-throttle wines of the vintage, and the extroverted personality of the wines from this part of the zone is quite evident, but all of the elements come together beautifully. Anticipated maturity: 2014-2024." (05/11) 93 points James Suckling: "Blackberry and dark chocolate, with hints of cigar box aromas. Full bodied, with soft and silky tannins and a long caressing finish. Drink now but will improve with age." Just down slope from Sesta on the south face of Montalcino this property continues to produce marvelous wine. Piancornello's trademark of ever-present ripeness of fruit is there but with an incredible focus, a spine of structure that is the defining feature for greatness at this winery. The wines are always pretty, smooth, soft and fruity.
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